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The total number of Christian victims under the Soviet regime has been estimated to range around 12 to 20 million. 1926: Cao Dai founded. 1929: The Cristero War, fought between the secular government and religious Christian rebels in Mexico, ended. 1930: The Rastafari movement began following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of ...
Eventually, the Romans converted to Christianity, [201] and set to introduce their new faith to the regions under their sway. Christianity emerged in Roman Britain in the fourth century AD, [202] [note 14] [dubious – discuss] and the religion was adopted disproportionately by the wealthy residents of such peripheral regions of the empire. [203]
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Caucasus .
From the Paleolithic to the Mesolithic, the Magdalenian culture evolved. The Early Mesolithic, or Azilian, began about 14,000 years ago, in the Franco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain and Southern France. This was ahead of other parts of Western Europe, where the Mesolithic began by 11,500 years ago at the beginning of the Holocene.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
1999 Radical orthodoxy Christian theological movement begins, critiquing modern secularism and emphasizing the return to traditional doctrine; similar to the Paleo-orthodoxy Christian theological movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which sees the consensual understanding of the faith among the Church Fathers as the basis of ...
Throughout the campaign, Innocent vacillated, sometimes taking the side favouring crusade, then siding against it and calling for its end. [411] It did not end until 1229 when the region was brought under the rule of the French king, creating southern France, while Catharism continued for another hundred years (until 1350). [412] [413]
A transition period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, the Balkan Mesolithic began around 15,000 years ago. In Western Europe, the Early Mesolithic, or Azilian, began about 14,000 years ago, in the Franco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain and southern France.